>>>> "Simon" == Simon Josefsson
<jas(a)extundo.com> writes:
Simon> non-problem and will even be fixed once the elisp parser in
Simon> Emacs understands ?#xCAFE. Thanks.
Er, XEmacs doesn't understand that either. XEmacs understands ?\x00
for a 1-byte character, and #xCAFE for an integer (in fact, up to
#7FFFFFFF).
> What about
http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/? It _will_
> make sense to resurrect this notation in the near future, for
> precisely that purpose. However, the reader will signal on
> code points that are not assigned characters.
Simon> IMHO this should use a different syntax. Maybe ?\U4711 or
Simon> something.
Why? When it happens, Unicode will be the native character
representation for XEmacs.
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